Typewriter Returns!

The Japanese multinational Brother sold 12,000 electronic typewriters last year in the UK, which is its biggest market in Europe. Electronic typewriters, not computers. BBC is now saying many people are going back to the tired old typewriters. Why?

The writer Will Self is a convert. He went back to using a manual typewriter several years ago. "I think the computer user does their thinking on the screen, and the non-computer user is compelled, because he or she has to retype a whole text, to do a lot more thinking in the head," he said in a recent interview. More

In Honor of World Environment Day

Martin Masadao sent us this ingenious recycling made by one of our young Pinoy entrepreneurs. Also here for the front.

Tansan

The Flickr site

Small Grant

When I saw Cary Grant in this car, it felt like, Oceans 10. It turned out to be a BMW Isetta.

Guerrillero Heroico

That is what the photogapher Korda called his photo of Che Guevara. That photo is the most widely reproduced historical image. You saw it on Tshirts, buttons and whatever. Now, a documentary has been made on the "Chevolution."
Here are some Che images I had in my computer and an old thing I wrote about Chevolution:

Ang Bisikleta ni Jun Lana

Bjork's Wanderlust

Quirky but thought-blasting

April

Hitler in Boracay

Sorry, Brian G. The newest sensation in Bora is not the Gucci Gang or your absence but the Fuhrer himself.

Unholy Week

Some photos from the fabulously surreal David LaChapelle

The Thing

"...our times have demonstrated what it means for the gates of the underworld to be opened... Things whose enormity nobody could have imagined...turned our world upside down." C.G. Jung 1981 PS 37 The Bronx New York

The Thing about Sideviews

Art on 45 and 33 1/3

Daniel Elden paints portraits of singers on their vinyl records. I don't know if they are still playable but definitely they are frameable.

Rizal Day 3: Sisa

Did you watch The Dance of Sisa? Noh? Yes, it's a Noh play. It was taken from Amelia Lapena Bonifacio's Ang Paglalakbay ni Sisa: lsang Noh sa Laguna. Sisa, of course, is from Rizal's Noli. I wrote about this in Inquirer (Cimatu, Frank. Baguio gets a feel of the Noh, The Philippine Daily Inquirer Lifestyle. October 16, 2005)

Calendar at Your Fingertips

I finally got my Starbucks diary last week. I showed it to a sister and then forgot all about it. Yeah, you know the story. She now owns it. Haynaku! I have been promised two diaries so maybe I will settle for that. But this idea is really cool.


Nails grow at an average rate of 3 millimetres a month. Keeping that in mind, etch the months from June to January (depends on the length of your nails) on your thumbnail with January at the top. You can use a laser cutter or if you are a Luddite and simply ingenious, use a cutter sans laser. Every 3 mm, the month get clipped off and etch "July," for example at the base of your thumbnail or the lunula.

Retro Glasses

These are smoke glasses, hand-blown and -crafted to give you the elan to hold your drink and cigarettes on one hand. Cool, this was made by Joe Colombo in 1963. A pair brings you to more than $250. On the other hand, cheapo, you can use this other retro glass known as diamond cut glasses.

Kewpie

Hairball: Kittywigs

Julie Jackson of "Subversive Cross Stitch" had another genius idea by having wacky wigs for your cats. This is her cat, Boone. He is a subversive crossdresser.

Japanese Santas

The Power of Books

mladenpenev.net gives us graphic examples of how books move us:

Samtsirhc Yrrem